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Quincy Jones

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
QUINCY JONES

Economics Money Myself Racism
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
QUINCY JONES

Big Deal Experience Start World Yourself
All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying “Nobody can put a boundary around me.”
QUINCY JONES

Boundary Limitation Love Myself Relationship Time
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
QUINCY JONES

Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
A lot of the guys were like that – Oscar Pettiford – they just took me under their wing, and that’s why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
QUINCY JONES

Love Myself People Wings
It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
QUINCY JONES

Class Easy Music Reminder Theory Yourself
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
QUINCY JONES

God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
I’m just a musician and a record producer.
QUINCY JONES

Music Player Record
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
QUINCY JONES

Love Music Relationship Woman
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
QUINCY JONES

Act Excellence Habit Myself
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
QUINCY JONES

Act Arrangement Record
I’d been in love before – I was always in love.
QUINCY JONES

Heart Love Myself
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.
QUINCY JONES

Country Food Language Music Soul
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
QUINCY JONES

Ground Industry Myself Place
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
QUINCY JONES

Choice Love Myself Player
You have to know that your real home is within.
QUINCY JONES

Home Reality Spiritual Yourself

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